Profile structure of magnetic flux lines in type-II superconductor from a rectangular electron hologram

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 369-373

  Harada, Ken ^a,b   Beleggia, Marco ^c,d   Endo, Junji ^a,e   Kasai, Hiroto ^a,b   Togawa, Yoshihiko ^b   Matsuda, Tsuyoshi ^a,b   Tonomura, Akira ^a,b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron holography; Electron microscopy; Flux line lattice; Lorentz microscopy; Numerical reconstruction; Superconducting flux lines

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ELECTRONS; HOLOGRAMS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRON HOLOGRAMS; FLUX LINE LATTICE; FLUX LINES; LORENTZ MICROSCOPIES; MAGNETIC FLUX LINE; NUMERICAL RECONSTRUCTION; PROFILE STRUCTURE; SUPERCONDUCTING FLUX; SUPERCONDUCTING FLUX LINE; TYPE II SUPERCONDUCTORS;

ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142060119     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/52.4.369     Document Type: Article

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